A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in SamoaRobert Louis Stevenson gives an eyewitness account of the battle of three Western nations (Britain, the United States, and Germany) for control of Samoa. Not only is this a fine analysis of late-nineteenth-century colonialism, it is also a rollicking good yarn in the best Stevenson tradition. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER III | 20 |
CHAPTER IV | 42 |
CHAPTER V | 56 |
CHAPTER VI | 67 |
CHAPTER VII | 84 |
CHAPTER IX | 106 |
CHAPTER XI | 130 |
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